Where literacies converge: content creation
Posted by Jacque on November 11th, 2007
A few days ago we reported on a study among whose results revealed that faculty believe information literacy instruction is very important for their students.
In the November/December EDUCAUSE Review (vol. 42, no. 6: 16–17), Joan K. Lippincott urges consideration of a new framework of literacy convergence for promoting the value of information and technology skills.
“I suggest using a framework that focuses on higher education’s need to prepare students to be content creators within their disciplinary or professional specialties. Delineating the skills that students need in order to create content within the disciplinary context could be a more meaningful way of encouraging the integration of a wide variety of skills into the curriculum,” she states. “It is difficult to separate out where media literacy ends and where technology literacy begins—or where information literacy begins and where technology literacy ends. There is a convergence of literacies, and they can all inform academic work in separate but integrated ways.”
Academic librarians and faculty alike can benefit from reading the whole article which is available at the EDUCAUSE site or in PDF format. [via LISNews] Image by Karin Dalziel. Creative Commons license.
